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San Diego’s new mayor is a provocative speaker, but is he telling the truth?

Nothing gets a populist's blood boiling like stories of political favors being doled out to people with money and power. And Mayor Bob Filner told a good one at a Hillcrest Town Council meeting on Jan. 8.

Our top three picks of San Diego events this week

Bob Medina and his wife Ana are former art teachers from San Diego who now live as ex-pats in Alexandria, Egypt. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at Voz Alta gallery, they’ll let San Diegans experience what their new home is like—from its popular music to the sights and even food—in the show Where You From?, which runs through Aug. 14.

Quality, warmth and memorable buns are on the menu in Oceanside

I’m annoyingly vocal about baked goods—persnickety, even—and I’m convinced that society is far too accepting of mediocrity when it comes to the other sweet science. It’s the formulaic element to many bakeries that turns me off.